About Printable Bible Coloring

The short version

Printable Bible Coloring is a free Bible coloring page library for Sunday school teachers, homeschool parents, Catholic catechists, and Christian families. Every page is hand-curated, biblically reviewed, and free to print for personal, classroom, and church use. No signup. No watermark. No commercial resale.

We're an independent Christian educational resource — not affiliated with any single denomination, not selling to publishers, not running display ads.

The longer version — why this exists

I'm Sarah Mitchell, and I started Printable Bible Coloring in 2024 after seven years as Sunday school director at a small church in Tennessee.

The problem was simple. Every Wednesday I'd sit down to plan Sunday's children's hour, and every Wednesday I'd hit the same wall: finding a free, age-appropriate, biblically accurate coloring page for next week's lesson took 30 to 90 minutes of clicking through pop-up ads, paywalled "freebie" sites, and Pinterest pins that linked to dead Etsy listings. Half the "free" pages were thinly-disguised email captures. The other half were scanned-from-the-1980s artwork where Jesus wore a 1950s suburban American haircut.

When I switched to homeschooling my two daughters and started building a Bible-integrated curriculum, the problem got worse. I needed roughly 200 coloring pages over the school year — one or two per chapter — and I needed them organized in a way that paired naturally with my lesson plans.

I started making them myself. The first batch was for my own Sunday school class. Then for the homeschool co-op. Then a shared Dropbox folder that, somehow, was being used by parents in three states. By the time I'd written my fourth Sunday school curriculum, I had 200 pages and a clear realization: every Sunday school director in America needs this resource, and it doesn't exist.

Printable Bible Coloring is that resource. The site you're on now started in a stack of homemade PDFs on my laptop and has grown into a structured library covering the Old and New Testaments, Catholic saints and sacraments, Christian themes (faith, hope, love, prayer, the Fruits of the Spirit), Christian symbols (cross, dove, lamb of God), and the major liturgical seasons.

What we publish

We publish four kinds of content:

1. Bible story coloring pages — Old and New Testament narratives, each broken into a 6-scene sequence so a story like Noah's Ark or the Prodigal Son becomes a coherent 6-page lesson rather than one isolated drawing.
2. Bible character coloring pages — Jesus, Mary, the apostles, the prophets, Old Testament figures (Moses, David, Abraham, Joseph, Daniel) — each with multiple audience variants.
3. Catholic coloring pages — saints (St. Patrick, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Therese of Lisieux, Mother Teresa, the patrons of various countries), the Rosary mysteries, the Stations of the Cross, the seven sacraments.
4. Themed Christian coloring pages — Fruits of the Spirit, Armor of God, the Beatitudes, the Lord's Prayer, Bible verses, Christian holidays (Christmas Advent calendars, Easter Holy Week, Pentecost, the Reformation).

Every page is published in two PDF formats — A4 (worldwide default) and US Letter (8.5 × 11 in) — and as an individual PNG for digital coloring on tablets.

Editorial process

Every coloring page on this site is reviewed against four criteria before publication:

• Biblical accuracy. Each illustration is cross-referenced against the Bible passage it depicts, with the source verse cited explicitly. When a story has multiple accounts — for example, the Nativity in Matthew's Gospel versus Luke's — we cite the source verse and follow that account.
• Age appropriateness. Pages targeting preschoolers (ages 3–5) avoid imagery of violence or trauma. Pages for kids (5–10) carry more narrative detail. Adult pages use intricate mandala-style line art suitable for Bible journaling.
• Educational value. Each page is linked to a specific Bible verse with a one-line teaching point that Sunday school teachers can build a lesson around.
• Reverence. Religious figures — Jesus, Mary, the saints — are drawn with the dignity owed to them. No caricature, no glib humor, no commercial-feeling imagery.

If a page doesn't pass all four criteria, it doesn't go on the site. Read our full editorial policy for sources, correction procedures, and review standards. Read our process for a step-by-step walkthrough of how we go from "Bible passage" to "published coloring page."

The Bible translations we use

Our default Bible translation is the New International Version (NIV), which is the most widely read in American Sunday schools and homeschool curricula. For popular verses, you'll also find:

• English Standard Version (ESV) — favored by many Reformed and evangelical churches
• King James Version (KJV) — the historical default, public domain
• New Living Translation (NLT) — accessible language for younger readers

For our non-English locales we use the locally-standard translation: Reina-Valera 1960 (Spanish), Almeida Revista e Atualizada (Brazilian Portuguese), Biblia Tysiąclecia (Polish), the Luther Bibel 2017 (German), Bible Louis Segond (French), and the Nieuwe Bijbelvertaling (Dutch). Every Bible verse block on the site has a "Compare translations" button that pulls the verse in multiple versions side-by-side.

A non-denominational note

Printable Bible Coloring is a non-denominational Christian resource. We affirm the Apostles' Creed and the historic Christian faith. We serve Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, and evangelical traditions, and we work to avoid taking sectarian positions on disputed denominational matters.

In practice, this means:

• Bible content focuses on the shared biblical narrative — the stories, parables, and miracles that Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant traditions all teach.
• Catholic content uses Vatican-published sources (vatican.va) and the Catechism of the Catholic Church as authoritative references. We follow the Catholic calendar for feast days and the Catholic biographical record for saints.
• Protestant-favored content (Sunday school lessons in Reformed tradition, for example) cites Westminster Confession references where relevant.
• Where traditions differ — for example, the role of the saints in personal devotion, or sacramental theology — we present the difference in plain language and focus on the shared scriptural foundation.

We do not promote any specific church, denomination, publisher, or curriculum. We serve teachers and parents across the church.

Who's behind this

The editorial team is one person — me, Sarah Mitchell — supported by a small group of volunteer reviewers (Sunday school directors, homeschool parents, two Catholic catechists, one Reformed pastor) who read draft pages before publication and flag anything that doesn't pass our four-criteria checklist.

I hold a Bachelor's degree in Religious Education from Westmont College (2014). My professional experience is seven years as Sunday school director at a single church in Tennessee plus four years as full-time homeschool curriculum writer for my own family and roughly 200 families who use my materials. Read more on my author page.

I'm not a theologian. For matters where theological precision matters — for example, sacramental theology, the Real Presence, predestination, the canon of scripture — I cite Vatican sources or established Reformed sources rather than making my own claims. If you spot a theological error on any page, email me and I'll publish a correction within five business days.

How we're funded

Printable Bible Coloring is funded by a small group of patrons — Sunday school directors, homeschool families, and one anonymous donor — who voluntarily support the work through occasional donations. We do not run ads. We do not collect email addresses for marketing. We do not have a paid tier or premium subscription.

If you'd like to support the work, you can contact us to learn how. There is no obligation; every page is and will remain free.

What's licensed for what

Our free license expressly permits:

• Personal use — print for your family
• Classroom and homeschool use — print copies for every student in your class
• Sunday school + VBS — print bundles for any size class
• Church bulletins + printouts — include our pages in your church publications

Not covered:

• Commercial resale — you can't compile our pages into a book and sell it
• Re-licensing — you can't republish under a different license or claim authorship

See our full license terms for details, plus our church license for institutional uses.

Contact

For page requests, error reports, theological corrections, partnership inquiries, or just to say hi: [email protected], or via our contact page.

If you've used these pages in your Sunday school or homeschool, I'd love to hear about it. Reader stories help me prioritize what to publish next.

— Sarah Mitchell Christian Education Editor